Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] than [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why his Lordship should have concluded that the facts did not give rise to the issue is unclear , but subsequent events have shown that the decision has been of much greater importance for the scope of the right of public meeting than his Lordship imagined it would be . |
| 2 | Yet after all , these original compositions had less historical importance than his Geystliche Lieder , au–den Choral ( Königsberg , 1597 ) , the familiar melody in the highest part while the four lower ones move in ornamented harmony rather than true polyphony . |
| 3 | The palliative of the PACA was given more importance as a piece of social engineering than its reception by the street kids warranted . |
| 4 | Trade unions have been far more suspicious of serious historical enquiry than their business counterparts , and investigations into particular disputes have tended to be within pre-determined sets of assumptions about the relationship between so-called labour and capital [ Beynon , 1984 ] . |
| 5 | Because the period is not a whole number of years , the next standstill will occur at a different season than its predecessor . |
| 6 | The same year saw the appearance of Gow 's edition , with commentary , of the fragments of the Alexandrian iambic poet Machon ; none of his productions makes more entertaining reading than his edition of this scurrilous but amusing author . |
| 7 | It was a less lively face than her sister 's because it was more turned in , more contemplative , less concerned with the things of this world . |
| 8 | Laura , a far more quiet and serious character than her cousin , had left home at the same time for Cambridge University , to read economics . |
| 9 | The formation of a Labour-led Israeli government under Prime Minister Itzhak Rabin was seen as improving the prospects for progress in the Middle East peace process , with the expectation that the new government would adopt a less intransigent stance than its predecessor over Jewish settlement in the occupied territories . |
| 10 | Soft Day 's latest success , a 20-length rout at Punchestown , set Irish pulses racing , but Moore , who has a fine record with his British raiders , struck a more cautious note than his compatriot . |
| 11 | I know you found your tent , but perhaps you thought this might be a more comfortable bivouac than my cottage ? |
| 12 | No one was happier about Johnny 's last-minute reprieve than his drinking companion Harry Ward , 73 , of Huskisson Street , Toxteth . |
| 13 | Dana was more like a human being than my agent . |
| 14 | But the same writer also showed his affinity with the notions of contemporary Christendom by observing that battles were won by a few renowned knights , and the army which had ‘ even one more famous warrior than its enemy must … win ’ . |
| 15 | Those of the school staff who remembered Prince Charles had immediately noticed that Richard was a much more outgoing and confident boy than his brother had been . |
| 16 | Instead of the usual embarrassed note next morning , she leaves him the fragmentary manuscript of Rory 's own Crow Road : a folder of gnomic jottings and descriptions that represents a more substantial legacy than his father 's . |
| 17 | I became maudlin , drinking more rich claret than my chaplain would like to imagine . |
| 18 | It was published at the end of 1944 and had far less political impact than his report . |
| 19 | Although the top Safrane is a much more accomplished act than its predecessor , the R25 , it 's still too uneven to grab the initiative in the prestige sector . |
| 20 | Ultimately , however , Egyptian Christianity 's most lasting effect was less its simple perpetuation of Nazarean thought than its development of an administrative system for housing and transmitting that thought . |
| 21 | If you 're brought up with your dad having a very strict view about what people should like , in a more severe way than my dad , then you would be bound to get worried , because your parents never say ; ‘ You look good enough ’ . |
| 22 | She grumbled to me that if she left the tap-handles in situ , people would take advantage and lie in their baths for hours on end , using a lot more hot water than their franc entitled them to . |
| 23 | Braided line is generally of less cross-sectional area than its equivalent in twist for the same breaking strain . |
| 24 | But what drove him on was less his outsize libido than his desire to prove a point and win public acclaim : ‘ Everyone thinks I 'm going to die . |
| 25 | The threat of targeting US-based British businesses for more taxes has led to the conclusion in some quarters that Clinton is less pro-free trade than his predecessor . |
| 26 | In his confused state the Doctor could not reasonably have been expected to remember that he had been captured by Chelonians — creatures whose girth was of a considerably more impressive span than their height . |
| 27 | She did n't know of a more loving couple than her mum and dad . |
| 28 | John Mason Cook turned out to be an even more successful businessman than his father ( which caused a considerable amount of friction between father and son ) ; his acumen , energy and determination swept the company , which was already successful , to international recognition and the name of Cook became synonymous with travel worldwide . |
| 29 | An Oxford rugby blue and a keen cyclist , he is a more outgoing figure than his predecessor as Cabinet Secretary , Lord Armstrong . |
| 30 | It is my belief that Diana approached matrimony with a more open mind than her husband . |